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Crash-test dummies constitute humanoid test devices used in simulated vehicle collisions. For many years those anthropomorphic devices were physical dummies of adults and children. Now begins the era for dummies to become virtual. They are digitalized similarly to avatars, and biologically modelled as any virtual physiological human.

Google Labs has released a free tool that is familiarizing Internet users with the construction of the human body. It allows you to see the detailed structure of every organ, search for muscles and peel back anatomical layers.

The virtual humans industry is growing very fast, as predicted the futurist Erwin van Lun and independent research companies such as Gartner or CCM Benchmark. Nevertheless, many advanced research projects, 3D human design methods or modeling techniques are not commonly known. Therefore, we would like to present three extraordinary state of the art examples of humanlike conversational artificial intelligence. They are expected to be adopted soon by the virtual humans industry.

Conversational virtual humans are nowadays applied to the field of neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology. The technology has evolved to a point where researchers may begin developing mental health applications that make use of virtual reality patients. Human patients with acute neurological illnesses are often confused and unable to cooperate with clinicians during medical consultations. Imagine a simulated training with virtual humans having real mental disorders, willing to talk to their doctors, and sharing their emotions!

Virtual human Spike has its own beliefs and values. Additionally, it exhibits rude, pessimistic and confrontational behavior. Even a very cheerful person is not able to convince this virtual agent to chill out, relax or assimilate optimistic outlook. Would you like that Spike became your conversational friend?

Beginning from Friday, 6th May 2011, Warsaw hosts eight edition of a documentary film festival named Planete Doc Film Festival. I participate in it intensively - I bought tickets for 10 movies! On Saturday I have seen the movie: Life 2.0., and I am very impressed by this film and its story. It is about people that live their everyday life into a virtual online world Second Life.

What is the perfect term for those seemingly intelligent ‘things’, which are popping up everywhere, and which feel more ‘natural’ as time goes by?

Well, we have found 155 synonyms (155!!! No typo!!).

As the leading business and research community in humanlike conversational artificial intelligence, we hope to increase understanding of this field, to provoke discussion and to initiate discussion on standardization of this huge list of different terms, some of them with slightly different implications but mostly genuine synonyms.

We are introducing the most popular, excellent candidate terms to be adopted by the industry and those synonyms which are really eye catching or controversial, and we will just list the remaining synonyms.

Imagine a TV that responds to your physical behaviour such as finger pointing, talking and other actions such as picking up a magazine. Basically, it is a TV that watches you via gesture recognition, voice recognition and image recognition and responds accordingly.